How about saying who 'she' is?
― jmm, Tuesday, 2 March 2021 17:07 (three years ago) link
Is there a genre you could point to, or is it in the vague purportedly genreless world of "literary fiction"?
― emil.y, Tuesday, 2 March 2021 17:20 (three years ago) link
Slipstream, according to Christopher Priest.
― The Ballad of Mel Cooley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 17:23 (three years ago) link
Aha, I was thinking sci-fi so not that far away. Are any of the authors involved Le Guin?
― emil.y, Tuesday, 2 March 2021 17:29 (three years ago) link
I did just have to check if Slipstream was what I thought it was and got a bit of a spoiler, seeing as the corresponding thread has been bumped here - is one of the authors the dude who wrote Dhalgren?
― emil.y, Tuesday, 2 March 2021 17:31 (three years ago) link
Ha, no.
― The Ballad of Mel Cooley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 17:36 (three years ago) link
Hmmmmm. I told you I was bad at this game ;_;
― emil.y, Tuesday, 2 March 2021 17:39 (three years ago) link
Balzac-ness
Balzacité
― alimosina, Tuesday, 2 March 2021 17:50 (three years ago) link
anna kavan! was it kafka's sister... something, something brian aldiss?
― no lime tangier, Wednesday, 3 March 2021 01:32 (three years ago) link
Oh yes indeed
― The Ballad of Mel Cooley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 3 March 2021 01:35 (three years ago) link
Ah fuck, I like Anna Kavan too. I'm going to properly kick myself if that quote is featured in the blurbs of any of the ones of hers I've read.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 3 March 2021 05:45 (three years ago) link